Lists of Bests: Aya's "Aya's Favorite History Books" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/26275 A list of books that have caught my interest and held it. Sat, 14 Nov 2009 20:00:16 GMT en-us 0 50 21 0 0 Queen Emma and the Vikings: Power, Love, and Greed in 11th Century England http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1929418 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1929418"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1596911190.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Harriet O'Brien</div> Victoria's Daughters http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2498883 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2498883"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/075092568X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jerrold M. Packard</div> 1066: The Year of the Conquest http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1453634 <div id="position">3</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Armine Howarth</div> Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/195195 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/195195"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0609809644.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jack Weatherford</div> Triangle: The Fire That Changed America http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/314024 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/314024"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/080214151X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David von Drehle</div> The Family Romance of the French Revolution (Centennial Book) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1420159 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1420159"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0520082702.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lynn Hunt</div> Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life (Ballantine Reader's Circle) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7977 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7977"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0345434870.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alison Weir</div> Sex with the Queen: 900 Years of Vile Kings, Virile Lovers, and Passionate Politics (P.S.) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/231758 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/231758"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060846739.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Eleanor Herman</div> Sex with Kings: 500 Years of Adultery, Power, Rivalry, and Revenge (P.S.) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/87465 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/87465"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060585447.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Eleanor Herman</div> 1066: The Hidden History in the Bayeux Tapestry http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/832988 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/832988"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0802777422.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Andrew Bridgeford</div> The Presidential Quotient: Puzzlers, Anecdotes, and the Pq Quiz http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2673607 <div id="position">11</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Wayne Samuel Kurzeja</div> Batavia's Graveyard: The True Story of the Mad Heretic Who Led History's Bloodiest Mutiny http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17018 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17018"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0609807161.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mike Dash</div> Crusades Through Arab Eyes http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/49166 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/49166"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0805208984.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Amin Maalouf</div> A Perfect Red: Empire, Espionage, and the Quest for the Color of Desire http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2020447 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2020447"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060522763.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Amy Butler Greenfield</div> A History of Celibacy http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/125662 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/125662"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0306810417.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1128610744_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Elizabeth Abbott</div> The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1206437 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1206437"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1594200947.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ann Fessler</div> Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/303693 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/303693"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679732578.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1122553824_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich</div> Sara and Eleanor: The Story of Sara Delano Roosevelt and Her Daughter-in-Law, Eleanor Roosevelt http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1101293 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1101293"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0312339399.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jan Pottker</div> Virgin: The Untouched History http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3553704 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3553704"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01ydAR%2BOdVL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Hanne Blank</div> The Slave Ship: A Human History http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2933345 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2933345"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/01lD5qbxdLL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Marcus Rediker</div> Becoming Charlemagne: Europe, Baghdad, and the Empires of A.D. 800 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3864838 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3864838"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51vFC6Ww6BL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jeff Sypeck</div>